A comparison of consumer behavior of coin laundry users and beliefs about this behavior held by coin laundry owners

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston Universit

1959 Handbook of Missions

Handbook of Missions. Forty-second annual edition. Brethren in Christ Church, 1959. Includes Statistical reports, Brethren in Christ Sunday School work, 1958.https://mosaic.messiah.edu/handbook/1041/thumbnail.jp

Comparing Two Different Intravenous Regimens of Tranexamic Acid in Total Hip Arthroplasty, Total Knee Arthroplasty, and Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

One significant intraoperative outcome of concern to anesthesiologists and orthopedic surgeons is controlling the amount of blood loss both intraoperatively and postoperatively. The use of the antifibrinolytic, tranexamic acid (TXA), is an innovative strategy that has been shown to decrease postoperative bleeding as well as decrease the need for blood transfusions. Currently, there are multiple intravenous tranexamic acid dose regimens that are being employed for orthopedic surgeries. In this study, the aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of a 2 dose regimen (1000 mg within 30 minutes pre-op and 1000 mg 4-6 hrs post-op) compared to a single 1000 mg preoperative IVPB dose. This study was a retrospective cohort conducted on patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA), total knee arthroplasty (TKA), and total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA). Both TXA regimens resulted in similar transfusion rates and adverse event rates with no significant difference as determined by statistical analysis. Our results indicate that a single preoperative IVPB 1000 mg dose of TXA is a cost effective way to prevent blood loss and postoperative complications without increasing adverse events

Patient-maintained sedation for oral surgery using a target-controlled infusion of propofol - a pilot study

OBJECTIVE: To assess the safety and efficacy of a new patient-maintained propofol system for conscious sedation in dentistry. DESIGN: Prospective clinical trial SETTING: Department of Sedation, Glasgow Dental Hospital and School, 2001 SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Patients scheduled for oral surgery with conscious sedation. Exclusions included ASA IV -V, inability to use the handset, opioid use and severe respiratory disease. INTERVENTIONS: Patients were given intravenous propofol to a level of 1.0 microg/ml (reducing from 1.5 microg/ml) using a target controlled infusion system, they then controlled their sedation level by double-clicking a handset which on each activation increased the propofol concentration by 0.2 microg/ml. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Oxygen saturation, patient satisfaction, and surgeon satisfaction. RESULTS: Twenty patients were recruited, 16 female and four male. Nineteen patients completed sedation and treatment successfully. Mean lowest oxygen saturation was 94%. No patients were over-sedated. All patients successfully used the system to maintain a level of sedation adequate for their comfort. Patient and surgeon satisfaction were consistently high. CONCLUSIONS: Initial experience with this novel system has confirmed safety, patient satisfaction and surgeon satisfaction

A Paraconsistent Higher Order Logic

Classical logic predicts that everything (thus nothing useful at all) follows from inconsistency. A paraconsistent logic is a logic where an inconsistency does not lead to such an explosion, and since in practice consistency is difficult to achieve there are many potential applications of paraconsistent logics in knowledge-based systems, logical semantics of natural language, etc. Higher order logics have the advantages of being expressive and with several automated theorem provers available. Also the type system can be helpful. We present a concise description of a paraconsistent higher order logic with countable infinite indeterminacy, where each basic formula can get its own indeterminate truth value (or as we prefer: truth code). The meaning of the logical operators is new and rather different from traditional many-valued logics as well as from logics based on bilattices. The adequacy of the logic is examined by a case study in the domain of medicine. Thus we try to build a bridge between the HOL and MVL communities. A sequent calculus is proposed based on recent work by Muskens.Comment: Originally in the proceedings of PCL 2002, editors Hendrik Decker, Joergen Villadsen, Toshiharu Waragai (http://floc02.diku.dk/PCL/). Correcte

Chief Samuel Taylor (Thunderbird) Blue Papers - Accession 496

The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, genealogical information, financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and a scrapbook collected by Samuel Taylor (Thunderbird) Blue (1872-1959), former chief of the Catawba Indians (1931–1938, 1941–1943, and 1956–1958). A large part of the collection relates to mission work with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Carolina (Mormon Church), and federal agencies on the problems facing the Catawba Indians.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1630/thumbnail.jp